Learn Pashto Writing and Speaking

As a language learner need so much and different resources to learn fleunt writing and speaking, unfortunately, there is a lack of these much resources on the internet to learn Pashto. Some websites and softwares are available as I have written about in my previous posts, yet a learner, beginner and advance level, needs real practice.

I have started to teach Pashto through regular lessons by email, chat on skype and phone conversations for low fees. For those who want to improve their reading and writing skill want to practice their speaking skills can contact anytime.

Also contact for translating books, phmaplets, documents, ads, etc from English into Pashto and Urdu and vice versa. And other information on Pashto, Pashtoons, Pashto books and Pashto literature.

hey zee im currently enlisting to the united states naval forces and would like to become a linguist i have been studying indonesian but i dont see that taking me that far i have a freind who told me about this so i google’ed it how would you suggest getting started in learning

hey you said your a good teacher can you give me sentences to get by in places that only speak pashto. i speak it but i have no way of helping my fiance learn so if you have tips can you help me teach him.

My Boyfriend speaks Pashto, and his family. we live in canada but I think it would be a welcome thing to learn and may help gain me more respect with his family to show i love him that much, to learn his language. My email is caronnwolfraim@gmail.com.
Please help me.

Mr.Ajab khan this is the worst comment ive seen so far. i live my whole life in punjab even in lower punjab but my parents always spoke pushto with us and we never forgot our language. but if you try you can still learn it anyway.
the bottom line is…its never too late ;).

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I saw satan swimming slowly, languorously, smiling,
wafting down a river of blood.
More and more as he spread his blood drenched arms
across each bank, people murdered themselves
and murdered their neighbors.
Their blood poured out filling the river deeper and deeper,
and satan patiently, willfully, joyfully
screeched a hideous cry of encouragement.
The unwitting souls on the riverbank, stood
with their eyes firmly fixed on the heavens
spoke the name of God,
then committed self-murder,
and satans fingers, dripping blood, dragged their souls
into his hell bound torrent.
Occasionally a bright beam of truth
would shine upon one of the souls on the riverbank
and they would simply walk away.
And satan thrashed and screamed each time
as another soul escaped his grip.

I am from pathan from NWFP but lived for whole life in Karachi,now i am in Australia and want to pashto writing(translation) even i am fluent in speaking but can not understand written language pl give me any suggestion that could help me to read pashto books and newspapers
Thanks & Regard

I am really glad to see a person who has dedicated himself to such a precious job of providing endless and advantageous information for a language like Pashto. I really appreciate your efforts. Thank you so much for your precious pioneering task!

Joining the alphabetes to make a word.
Alef +Cin(seen)+Laam+Alef+Meem ( its important to think about the sounds not about the names written structure) for example => AY + ECH+EM+EE+DE
(A)+(H)+(M)+(E)+(D)
Now from that form of the combination we get a word (AHMED) .
SO its important to thik about the sounds more here to not become confuse.
Now start with Pashto alphabetes and join them making the words.
Alef +Cin(seen)+Laam+Alef+Meem ( ا+ س+ ل + ا+ م )
ASALAM ( Hello/Hei ) = اسلام
Zay +Hay+ ( ZA ) (I / Iam) = ( ز+ ه ) ، زه

try to analyse these words and place it in divided structural form like in above lessons.
for example )=> Happy = KHwaXch (خوښ)(Khwakh), to analyse this adjective (word) we have to follow the rule from above: KHwaXch(Khwakh) = KHAY+WOW+XEEN(XCHEEN)= KHWAKH
NOW : analyse these words to practice more and more:
Play = لوبه = Loba
Eat = وخوره = Wokhra
Come = راشه = Rasha
Go = لاړشه / ځه = Za / Larrsha
You = ته = Teh
I = زه = Za
He = هغه = Hagha
She = هغه = Hagha
(to be noted that since Pashto language is a bitt exclusive in its structure and its grammer is bitt different than the common grammers of the english language or maybe of the other langauges so is most semilar to the French and with some of scandinavian langauges. here as you see both for HE/SHE I used (HAGHA) which refers to the pronounes, but when you introduce some one to other like )=> HE IS A BOY )=> HAGHA YAW HALIK DA ; SHE IS A GIRL )=> HAGHA YAWA JANAI DA : but when we come to the possisive form of pronoun then the form of the prounoun changes and in pashto it should be appointed or should be used like difinite artcle to be more clear , like for example )=> SHE ATE FOOD = HAGHAY KHWARRA WOKHWARRE. you see here we used instead HAGHA (HAGHAY). for masculan we dont change the form.
I hope you get this lessin seriousely and learn from it as iam not a teacher maybe it would have some irrelevant form of explanations.

hi, salaam
i’m really keen on learning pashto a lot of my friends are pathaans in the group my first language is english im australian born – and i don’t trust they give me correct meanings or translations so i’d like to show them :-)
i’m also considering a trip later in the year or perhaps early next yr to pakistan and since i have many friends also holidaying/ returning froms studying in Australia we have made a programme to stay in each persons town etc so considering majority are pathaan i think it would be wise to learn a bit and just for fun.

could you help me basic writing and more in depth conversational and understanding?

Salam, I´m from Germany, but I love Pashto and would really like to learn it. Do you know websites, where you can learn pashto. I´, sorry if I ask something which was already mentioned. Thank you! May Allah always smile upon you.

hello Farrah and Janina !’
I thank you for asking about the help in pashto language , I will give you a link where you can download pashto books , but iam not sure you can read it or not, the informations are not described in english.
here is a link..

anybody who is interested and want to learn pashto(afghan) language iam at their service . but please try to response regularly and learn the lessons while i will be making for you guys, secondly if anyone who donate and buy a domain where we can only devote that to the learning of pashto will be more usefull.
with regards
amb

sAeida Saadaat asalamoalaikom
If you understood the above lessons , so please if you can use the words and repeat the form of structure and write it on the blogg here so others could follow you and also ask questions if you have .
that would be a better communicative study which could ensure you , me and others to fully participate.
with regards
amb

brother or sister that your name is amb asalamoalaikom .thanks very much.iam from afghanistan but sorrowfully i live another country. my mother tongue is dari. in past i did not know any thing about pashto but now i learnt alphabet- phrases-proverbs&many words of pashto language.ofcourse this success is from your lessons and this blog.with many thanks دیره مننه

salamo alaikom
Saieda Saadaat and mr. Muhammad Asad , I would like to go through from zero to hundred. but as you mentioned , I can write you words it not a problem i hope you manage to learn the rest by yourself.

Now I will explain these one by one to you..
for today you have to learn the names above and its pronunciations , next time I will go through the explainition of each part of speach..
Here is about the )=>

(Daa Gaynd De Zmaree Day ) > In this sentence as you see we have changed the name (ZMARAI) into (ZMAREE) , here its because in Pashto the noun changes when it comes to the belongings, like when we say
(THIS BALL IS BELONGING TO ZMARAI) in english just we add the extra conjunction word (belonging) or we add apostroph , but in Pashto we have to change the Name’s format and appoint it to the sepcific person.

(DAA GAYND DE ZMAREE DAY ) its english translation
(THIS IS ZMARAI’S BALL)or( THIS BALL BELONGS TO ZMARAI) :
but as we see in english its appointed by apostrophe and in the same manner in pashto it is possessively added (EE ي) to the name (ZMARAI) .

dear teacher salamo alaikom
thank you very very much .above lesson was important & usful for me.please excuse me if you are tired of writing.i am really sorry for this problem.i hope excuse me.with many thanks and best regards.

Dear sister Saieda Saadaat ws.
its my pleasure to help anyone , and its sawab(rewards) too to make someone understand in any good work. anyway , I want you to write the names I have mentioned in the upper lesson. also try to make some sentences , no matter if you do mistake or not i will just assure me that you understood. so untill next lesson have a good day and time.

First let me explain the word pronoun: Pronoun is a short cut of noun or a word which is used instead of noun. For example:

Common sentences pronoun based sentences

Zmarai goes to Kabul = He goes to Kabul

In the above sentence , HE is used instead Zmarai which means that is a Pronoun for the name of Zmarai.

In Pashto Language We have five basic pronouns which some are sub divided into different indicative pronouns .
first of all thank you for your attention I will answer your question here then will explain each pronoun and will give an example as well.

Regarding your question ,
why we use DAY دې ? and where? And why we use DE د and where?
Why we use DAY دې ??
ولې په پښتو کې موږ (دې ) کاروو او چېرته؟

We use DAY(دې as an extra determiner in a phrase or a sentence which relates to the pronoun part of speach , it is a system which can be found in every language grammer but in its own way or type, every Noun is defined as masculine and feminine , and in pashto language everything you mention the pronouns should be determined by its specific gender. In this case this (DAY دې ) is used as a determiner and extra determiner in two different sentences , one is used for a near determention of singular feminine word (her/her’s) and another is used as possessive determiner to the sentence .

For example follow the sentences below..
لکه د بېلګې په توګه …

ژوندی دې وي افغان = ZHWANDAI DAY WEE AFGHAN = MAY AFGHAN LIVE
(here i will analyse the sentence for you to understand better)

Again here its a determiner which appoints towards the Noun =Afghanistan

Now Why we Use DE = د ? This is because it joins and complete a sentence,
This term is used mainly as an article its english is ( a , it, an, The ), but some times it is used conjoined with pronoun which is called the conjoined nknown pronoun( it can be appointed only by finger) .
For example =
د افغانستان بانک = DE AFGHANISTAN BANK = The Bank of Afghanistan
Here DE = THE . it is determined by the article before noun.
د دغه کار دی = DE DAGHA KAAR DAI =It is his work ( we dont know whose? , but you can appoint towards and here its mentioned towards near person).

So here we used the DE as article too bu tits typically pashto i didnt fined english explaination for it but , you can just assume it as a helper to join word to complete a sentence.

I hope you understand this lesson too , i will come up with rest of the pronouns and examples , this month i have some exams so i may not be able to make the lessons soon. Inshallah later sometimes if we lived.

now regarding your sentences that you made , should say thats very well, but remains some small thing let me correct some of them .

1)da kalee da malalee day )its a bitt wrong in the last form, because you mentione plurel then again finished it with a singular verb.
right form is here => Daa Kaalee De Malalai dee =
( Always remember when you begin with singular masculin form of sentence then finish it with singular musculine verb , Day دی( its masculine) ,
ده DA = Its a feminine singular verb.
so you should say ( Daa Kaalee De Malalai dee ) .
2) the second one is perfect, but try to evoid دي و instead write دی , Daa maargha (morgha) de Ahmadee day. (this is Ahmadee’s bird). دي is used in plurel form.
3) this is also fine just you sshould learn the difference between singular form and plural and masculine noun and feminine one.
ok res is fine , also it seems you have no pashto keyboard so you need to install from some afghan websites. good luck

asalam alaikom
if you have any question please put it here on this webpage and share it with rest of our viewers and learners, but you can also contact me by the email, if you need some specific help in grammer = gurbatt@yahoo.com

THIS IS AN EXCELENT WEBSITE FOR LEARNING PASHTO.
MY PROBLEM IS THE PROUNCIATIONS OF THOSE LETTERS AND WORDS WHICH OCCUR IN PASHTO BUT ARE NOT IN PERSIAN OR URDU
I HOPE TO USE THE HELP OFFERED SO KINDLY BY VARIOUS PEOPLE ON THIS LINK.
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Can you recommend a good dictionary that shows the word in Pashto script, with an English definition? A transliteration for pronunciation would be helpful but is not required. My problem is that phrase books don’t contain the pashto script. On line dictionaries are incomplete or limited in the number of words they contain. I can’t learn new words if I don’t know what they mean in English and how to spell them correctly in Pashto.

asalam alaikom everyone, Hello to all.
regarding the pronunciation of the words you should ask the admin of this website who is a reporter himself and have the opportunity to provide you the audio listnings . I would have done that but I dont know where to put them and how to serve them to you all.
mr. Shoaib aslaam alaikom from my side too .. If you want to learn the speaking form of the language you have to be in contacts with the people whose language is pashto and try to hear the different pashto radio or tv programmes . especialy try to read and listen to the news and make the questions and ask.
here i can only provide you an explainations , discreptions of the grammer and can come up with my own way teachings , iam not any professional teacher neither did I teach anyone online , its my own interests as a hobby that i try to provide some basic informations regarding Pashto language. so if you have any question you can only put it here and ask inshallah i will be answering that to you soon or later . iam busy with some works so sometimes it takes a long while answering you all here so sorry for that inconviniency.

I am very interested in learning different language’s. And since pashto is very cute language and not to much hard to learn, and my lovely boyfriend is pashto speaker. So then i wanted to learn pashto 4 him.

I can ask him to learn me, and of course he will. He already learned me some words, but i want to suprise him one day, by talking to him. Then he will get shocked that i just talk pashto, from where i have learned?

So if anyone is interested to help me, just by some words. Then send me a Mail on: Mirapedersen@live.no .. There i have a mail with some words i want you to translate for me to pashto.. Thanks! :-)

hi to every one and advnce eid mubarak. iam from peshawar but unluckily i dont know pushto how to speak and prononce. but thanx to AMB ur lectures help me alot please tell us more about pushto. waiting for your next lecture.

I am desireous to learn Pashtu but still I am trying to get the software or book. Will you be my friend to let me know where are the books and software available so I can purchase or download it. I can speak and write sindhi, urdu and understand punjabi also.

hi! i am filipina from Philippines, i have a Boyfriend from pakistan hes pathan, sometime cant understand of each other coz he not know how to speaked more English…. i want to learned more about pashtu language, Plz what is the online but with not paying how to learned this language…. God Bless if you hepl me…

Someone was just asking me if I know any websites that can help people learn Pukhto! Good I accidentally came across this blog :)
Staso dera manana, AMB, che taso khpal tem da dona kha kaar da paara istimalawai. Khudey mo mal sha!

Hi, Can some one tell me, what to write, if some one ask “sanga aye”?
How to write the answer that I am fine. How are you doing? Long time no news…
Let me know quick…I have to impress my pashtoon friend
waiting for ur replies!!! :)
THANKS

Hello.
I am urdu speaking and i have lived abroad pretty much my whole life.
I am about to be getting married soon, and they guy is Pathan. His family is from Kohat, Pakistan. He is Afridi.
I dont speak Pashto at all. and neither do i understand anything in Pashto. However, i really do need to learn it. Please if someone can help me i would really appreciate it. I just want to learnn how to speak in Pashto and understand it. Thats it.
Please get back to me.
Thankyou.

I am a government employee and have to move in pakistan and outside country there i have to interact with different companies. So the pushto speaking our PATHAAN bhai or every where … in pakistan and world wide

So i want to learn the PUSHTO language; and need help and assistance please

I am very interested in learning different language’s. And since pashto is very cute language and not to much hard to learn, and my lovely boyfriend is pashto speaker. So then i wanted to learn pashto 4 him.

I can ask him to learn me, and of course he will. He already learned me some words, but i want to suprise him one day, by talking to him. Then he will get shocked that i just talk pashto, from where i have learned?

So if anyone is interested to help me, just by some words. Then send me a Mail on: Mirapedersen@live.no .. There i have a mail with some words i want you to translate for me to pashto.. Thanks!

Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is magnificent blog. A fantastic read. I will definitely be back.

hey salam to all pashto seekers.. i am a pushto teacher in Eton institue of dubai which teaches 100 languages .. if any of you are interested kindly mail me at (mystyle11afg@hotmail.com) …. i can teach pastho frm arabic to pashto and frm urdu to pashto or from english to pashto or from dari to pastho….

Pashto language isn’t that hard but it needs commitment, I am from a pathan family, lived most of my life in foreign countries, I am weak at the stage when it comes to reading and writing but I can speak well and can teach you the basics……:)

dera salmona da tol khalak,
ramazaan kareem to all of you brothers and sisters, i have an english to pashto dictionary . anybody wants it, feel free to mail me at shakerjunaidkhan@gmail.com
da khudai pa aman

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BEING A PATHAN, I CAN READ BUT FEEL A BET HARD TO WRITE PASHTO, I LIKE PASHTO POETRY AND WANA WRITE, FOR THIS I NEED TO LEARN WRING 1ST, I LOVE PASHTO, I MISS IT, IT IS OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WHO FAILED TO IMPROVE OUR MOTHER TONGUE

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